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Irregular burned plantations are caught in Alagoas

05/11/2012

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The fire consumes the cane field near a home in Limoeiro Anadia, wild Alagoas. "It bothers others. We were very overwhelmed too, "said Benedito Avelino Alves, rural worker.

In Watchtower, the forest area, the JN caught the moment a man ignites the plantation. The road is covered with smoke, which increases the risk of accidents. On site there is also another risk: the proximity to the power grid.

Fires in agriculture are made to facilitate cutting of sugarcane, which goes to the grind in the mills. The controlled burning is allowed, provided they follow guidelines established by a decree of the President of the Republic, 1998.

The document is forbidden to make fires near forests and vegetation, power transmission lines, telecommunication stations and highways.

The obligation to monitor compliance with the legislation and grant licenses for controlled burning has IBAMA for state agencies at the end of last year. In the state, is responsible for the Environment Institute (IMA).

In Alagoas there is a state law that establishes the conditions in which fires can be made, but according to the IMA, a technical education is being finalized. Meanwhile, the agency has received more than one hundred applications, but has not given any authorization. Still, the fires continue to be made in the cane fields of the state.

The IMA also reported that there was no time to take control of what was once IBAMA.

"We take the issue of controlled burns in September this year and we are able to organize ourselves internally to be able to give the necessary response to these cases," said Augusto Duarte, forester of the IMA.



Source: Environment Brazil

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